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A BACK-TO-WORK training company with taxpayer-funded contracts worth more than £1.3m has been disqualified for “malpractice”. Bright Inter...

There is no evidence that the Help to Work programme will move participants any closer to getting a job; charities should boycott the sche...

Attempts by the government to make the poorest and most vulnerable pay for a crisis not of their making were condemned at PCS DWP group co...

Martin Hadfield, 20, is said to have refused benefits while he desperately searched for work since he was made redundant in April last y...

Originally posted on kittysjones : Details originally posted on the  Benefits and Work site on May 15, 2014. The number of sanction...

From the Facebook page ‘Disabled People against  Cuts’ (DPAC) Nick Barker – RIP Former sheep farmer, Nick had a brain haemorrhage whi...

By the end of the Great War of 1914-1918, one organisation that was very influential on the global stage and whose actions and imple...

Originally posted on michellekent1 : I knew it You knew it and the people faced with ‘Bedroom Tax’ knew it!!!!!! The BEDROOM TAX w...

Work Capability Assessment Judicial Review for Mental Health Claimants Substantial Hearing 7, 8 and 9th July 2014, Royal Courts of Justi...

Originally posted on kittysjones : In the years before Cameron’s Health and Social Care Act, the National Health Service (NHS) ran a ...

Originally posted on the void :    Despite a high profile launch of the latest mass workfare scheme two weeks ago, DWP docume...

The Mother of Parliaments: Now paralysed because Tories and Lib Dems hate each other so much. One of the questions put to the panel on...

Originally posted on Vox Political : Dr Paul Litchfield, here pictured giving evidence at another committee meeting – so it’s pr...

Originally posted on Ipswich Unemployed Action. : fwd from John Cook Secretary/Agent Ipswich Labour Party www.ipswic...

‘The people of Warrington have been feeling like Iain Duncan Smith’s guinea pigs. For most of the past year, the town in Cheshire has ...

‘A taxpayer-funded hotline to help the unemployed get back to work is unstaffed for hours every day – because its own advisers have been m...

‘Campaigning Labour MP Tom Watson has called for Jane’s case to be urgently investigated in a letter to Director of Public ­Prosecuton...

‘Corporate funding of all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) should be banned, according to a senior MP who has warned that the unoffi...

Originally posted on Ann McGauran : Mark Bothwell, who’s on jobseeker’s allowance (JSA). He says he hasn’t been eating properly for ...

Stigmatised and shamed - Simon Duffy of The Centre for Welfare Reform explains how the welfare state is letting down those that need it ...

The SLRCG took to streets of Peckham again yesterday, and held a protest and an info-stall outside the Peckham Job Centre. Peckham Job Cen...

desperate MEASURES: Food bank volunteers have also dismissed the idea that take-up has been driven by supply, not demand.  When ...

‘The power to take children away from their families could be privatised along with other child protection services under controversi...

A vision for radical reform – built on hard facts. That’s the promise of Iain Duncan Smiths’ ambitious reworking of the welfare state. ...

Please help us save the independent living fund! You can use this picture as your twitter or Facebook logo to show your support. “ I ...

‘Charities and politicians have reacted with anger to a claim by the Employment Minister that the dramatic rise in the number of peopl...

‘MPs are employing 151 people on controversial zero-hours contracts, Parliament’s pay and expenses watchdog has revealed. Scores of ...

Here at SEN, we have decided to boycott the government’s new Help To Work scheme, including the Community Work Placements programme. This...

New DWP proposals to protect landlords’ rental incomes are in danger of trapping people in their homes, creating a modern day version of a...

PRISON privatisation has been a disastrous failure and must end. That’s the only possible conclusion from a damning litany of chaos, cock...